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JAKARTA, Oct. 1 (Xinhuanet) -- Saturday night's bomb
blasts in Bali could have link with fuel oil price hikes which were felt by the
people as a very heavy burden, the official news agency Antara quoted a
political observer as saying.
"I think groups who are unsatisfied with the fuel oil
price hike have been behind the explosions, not those who want to shift
attention on fuel oil issues," Professor Budiatna, a political observer at the
University of Indonesia, said here on Saturday night.
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Damaged furniture, blood stains and
a discarded shoe litter the floor at a bomb damaged resteraunt in Kuta, on
the island of Bali. (AFP)
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to Budiatna, the unsatisfied groups thought protests in the form of
demonstrations were no longer effective because the government paid no attention
to it.
The government increased fuel oil price hike by an
average of 126 percent on Saturday.
"They pressured (the government) by resorting to
terrors. Their message is to lower the fuel oil price or else the terror acts
will continue," the observer added.
The former dean of the social and political science
faculty said he did not believe if the terror acts were aimed to shift fuel oil
reports.
Reports said that some six bombs exploded at three
tourism spots of Jimbaran, Kuta Town Square and Nusa Dua in the tourist resort
province of Bali.
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
confirmed on Saturday night that 11 people had been killed and 27 others injured
in the bombings.
On Oct. 12, 2002, bomb blasts occurred in Bali,
killing 202 people, mostly Australian vocationers. Enditem | 
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